Cave Monks

In Georgia, I visited some monks. They live in the Caucasus Mountains, which look like this:
Fifteen hundred years ago, they lived in caves that look like this:
With paintings on the walls like this:
And this:
Now their monastery looks like this:
They're still living in the same place and still using many of the caves that their predecessor cave monks dug into the side of the mountain centuries ago. They have a windmill now for electricity, but still. It takes gumption. Georgia cave monks must eat a lot of buttermilk biscuits.